Best Bestsellers Books

Anthony Bourdain's legendary memoir of twenty-five years in professional kitchens — the drug use, the violence, the camaraderie, and the obsessive craft of restaurant cooking.

Two retired Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, lead a cattle drive from Lonesome Dove, Texas, to Montana. The novel follows the drive across a thousand miles of frontier, and the lives of every person touched by it — cowboys, women, outlaws, Indians, and the land itself.

Former FBI lead hostage negotiator Chris Voss reveals the counter-intuitive techniques he developed for life-or-death negotiations — and shows how they apply to salary talks, business deals, and everyday persuasion. The key insight: humans are not rational actors, and the best negotiators use emotional intelligence, not logic.

Yotam Ottolenghi's most accessible cookbook — recipes designed to be simple without sacrificing the bold flavours and ingredient combinations that define his cooking.

Peter Attia's comprehensive guide to living longer and better, based on his medical practice and years of research into the science of longevity.

The true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories — a story Keneally tells in the form of a novel, using invented scene and dialogue alongside documented fact.

One of the most influential business books ever written, offering a principle-centred approach to personal and professional effectiveness.

A landmark work in trauma psychology by one of the world's foremost authorities on PTSD. Van der Kolk reveals how trauma reshapes both body and brain, undermining survivors' capacity for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

A record of a week-long conversation between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the occasion of the Dalai Lama's eightieth birthday — two of the world's most joyful people discussing how to find lasting happiness despite suffering, ageing, and loss.

The Joad family, driven from their Oklahoma farm by the Dust Bowl, joins the great migration west to California — and finds exploitation, hunger, and community in equal measure.

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by Ford Prefect — who turns out to be a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom in the universe. Their adventures take them to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a planet populated by telephone sanitisers, and a search for the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The comprehensive American cooking bible — first published in 1931, continuously revised ever since, and still the most trusted and comprehensive home cooking reference ever produced.

Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars after his crew evacuates, and must use science, engineering, and dark humour to survive until a rescue mission can reach him.

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

David McCullough tells the gripping story of two self-taught bicycle mechanics from Dayton who changed the world by inventing powered flight.

Janie Crawford's search for love and selfhood across three marriages in Black Southern communities — told in a voice of extraordinary lyrical power.

The endgame. Aelin Galathynius has been captured, and without her the armies of Terrasen face annihilation. Her allies must fight on without her — each carrying a piece of the plan only Aelin knew in full. The conclusion to one of the most beloved epic fantasy series of the decade.

The series finale: Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, as Rand al'Thor faces the Dark One at the Bore while the armies of Light and Shadow fight across five simultaneous battlefields. The culmination of a 23-year, 14-book epic.

Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has ever happened, from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation — written with his characteristic wit and warmth.

Seymour 'Swede' Levov — athlete, golden boy, inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — builds the American dream: a beautiful wife, a farm in New Jersey, a prosperous business. His daughter Merry becomes a political terrorist in the 1960s and bombs a post office, killing a man. The pastoral explodes.

Four novellas connected by the turning of seasons, ranging from a prison escape to a boyhood journey to find a dead body, revealing Stephen King at his most literary and emotionally complex.

Epidemiologist and data storyteller Hans Rosling identifies ten deep-rooted instincts — from the Gap Instinct to the Fear Instinct — that systematically distort our understanding of the world, and offers a fact-based framework for seeing global progress clearly. Drawing on decades of public health data, Rosling shows that the world is, on almost every measurable dimension, far better than most people believe.

Beginning with The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman's trilogy follows Lyra Belacqua — a girl who can read the alethiometer — across multiple worlds, uncovering a vast conspiracy involving the Church, the nature of Dust, and the meaning of consciousness itself. A fantasy epic of rare philosophical ambition.

Ramit Sethi's blunt, practical, six-week programme for getting your financial life in order — automating savings, paying off debt, investing in low-cost index funds, and negotiating better deals on everything from bank fees to salary. Written for people in their 20s and 30s who find most personal finance books boring.